It’s been a funny week in Pilot Towers so far, usual things happening in unusual ways. You see when City have an away day you expect to see a few faces with fortnightly familiarity, stocking up on casuals for the next trip down to the Walkers Stadium. But a strange take on the humble away day occurred, everything from Deadly Sins, to Westwood shirts were horded in anticipation of a jolly boys outing to Hamburg. Hamburg you see is the Klitschkos' adopted home and a home which Haye with all going well return from in crowning glory.
The long odds are with Haye, which seems bizarre as even now Haye is somewhat of an unknown quantity, but maybe that’s just it. The same sort of deal that all but ended Enzo Maccarinelli’s career, but not from a rocketed blow to the head, much worse it took away the most important thing in sports, Haye destroyed his confidence. Once the confidence is gone, you may as well just lie down and roll over. The fight was billed as the biggest since Benn and Eubank from an all British perspective, and carried all the hurrah and hoopla that would be expected with such a coming together of divinely billed masons in fist. There was barely a paper’s width between the two fighter beforehand, and a short fight was predicted as each fighter camewith a diamond encrusted red button.
As you know Haye unified the belts and stepped up to the heavy weight division and frankly it is what the division was crying out for. A panther with rapier wit and thud and thunder charm, someone that puts the show back in the business, The giants of the division, and that is meant only literally, have sucked the enthusiasm out of boxing’s blue chip division, with pedestrian white folk standing more like cavemen, drudged around the ring.
So without facts and figures, in all honesty that would be a cut and paste job anyway, and if you are at all interested in that side off things there is always Wikipedia. The crux of the Hayemaker either way is that he has conquered all before him at this juncture and there is really only the Brothers Grim left. So how do we know who will win, simply we don’t. But one thing is for sure we will be a step closer to knowing just where Haye stands in the pantheon of greats come midnight this Saturday.